Following on from your suggestions, we have been keeping an eye on the usage stats for the new search engine Cuil. Unfortunately, we have been watching a quick decline rather than a steep ascent to success!

Despite an impressive start, stats for Cuil have been falling steadily. It’s unfortunate that the engine couldn’t capitalise on the initial interest it generated following widespread media coverage, and it remains to be seen if and how Cuil plans to tempt many disgruntled users back to the site as the index improves. It looks like the folks at Cuil have some tough work ahead of them.

In the meantime, please find below the latest stats for Cuil – these figures show the % of searches performed using Cuil relative to the total number of searches performed.

Globally

US

UK

Jul 29

0.10%(1 in 1,000)

0.11%(1 in 1,000)

0.19%(1 in 500)

Jul 30

0.11%

0.12%

0.19%

Jul 31

0.08%

0.09%

0.10%

Aug 01

0.06%

0.07%

0.10%

Aug 02

0.05%

0.07%

0.09%

Aug 03

0.04%

0.04%

0.08%

Aug 04

0.03%

0.04%

0.06%

Aug 05

0.03%(3 in 10,000)

0.04%(1 in 2,500)

0.05%(1 in 2,000)

Aug 06

0.03%

0.03%

0.05%

Aug 07

0.02%

0.03%

0.01%

Aug 08

0.02%

0.02%

0.01%

Aug 09

0.02%

0.03%

0.01%

Aug 10

0.01%

0.02%

0.01%

Note: This information is based on a total sample for the period of over 365 million page views globally.

95 Comments

Unless there is some uniqueness or added value Cuil will not fly as a search engine. Google has 68% and yahoo another 25% of the searches. This doesn’t leave much for the other search engines. With that said, I would like to see someone give Google a run for their money.